Comment by ok123456
14 hours ago
Google putting AI search summaries is the worst of all worlds.
You need cheap, fast inference to put on a search results page and finish near the deadline (~3 seconds). Cheap, fast inference is more likely to get stuff wrong. No one is happy.
> No one is happy.
My understanding of Google politics is that the small number of search team members who implemented any given 6-month-old feature will be happy as they will have been promoted away from the team and not responsible for maintenance nor quality.
I was quite happy when I could type search keywords in, Google searched for relevant pages with those keywords, and I went and read those pages. Haven’t really been happy since they broke it quite a while ago.
I'm curious how google think about the damage this does to the perception of the quality of their AI tools. Every second google search I do reinforces the association "google AI is crap" because you can't help but see it there at the top of the page. Surely this perception hurts Gemini adoption across the board?